A stagnant price period seems at an end as Pornhub is forced to go full crypto for payments. Verge (XVG), the cryptocurrency now infamous for its links to the porn industry, is on the up again — thanks to a classic fiat money scandal. As adult entertainment giant Pornhub confirmed this week, payment providers Visa […]
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The IRS is looking to expand its investigative capabilities around privacy coins, layer-two solutions, and sidechains. The United States’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking information and tools to help it trace transactions using privacy coins, layer two protocols such as Lightning Network and side chains like Plasma and OmiseGo (OMG). A June 30 request […]
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Cointelegraph examines where crypto debit cards are available and what options they offer as wider adoption starts to take hold. As a sector, plastic cryptocurrency cards have had a bumpy ride. While for some they are the perfect way to spend those hard-stacked sats, it has evidently been a struggle for crypto companies to provide […]
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An international campaign calling on credit card companies to block payments to porn sites could lead to a huge wave of new cryptocurrency adopters. According to a BBC report on May 8, a group of international campaigners and campaign groups has written to ten major credit card companies calling for the immediate suspension of payments […]
Continue ReadingThe rules and strategies for the technical trading in the cryptocurrency market: What did we learn from the past? In two recent studies, I investigated the technical trading rules in the cryptocurrency market and profitability of technical trading rules among cryptocurrencies with a privacy function. In our first study, we collected daily price data on eleven […]
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Bitfinex, the 11th largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, will remove dozens of crypto trading pairs later on this week. Bitfinex, the 11th largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, will remove dozens of cryptocurrency trading pairs later this week. According to a March 2 blog post, Bitfinex will remove 46 crypto trading pairs […]
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Bitcoin continues to trade sideways, leaving the door open to generate generous profits by trading altcoins. Trading altcoins continues to be one of the most profitable strategies in the crypto market. The highlight of this week was the MATIC (MATIC) pump and subsequent dump, which I was lucky enough to time perfectly, securing a 60% […]
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Digital payments giant PayPal is suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for making it provide disclosures for fees it does not charge. PayPal is suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for requiring the firm to make “misleading and confusing” disclosures about its fees. The digital payments giant filed a lawsuit against the CFPB on […]
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Bitcoin’s tightening trading range and low volume convinced veteran trader Scott Melker to focus on altcoins which have been producing double-digit gains for the past 3 weeks. Since publishing the last trading journal two weeks ago, I have made a number of altcoin trades but not a single Bitcoin (BTC) trade other than closing my […]
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A sudden attempt to crack $9,000 resistance fell through on Friday, with Bitcoin coming full circle in less than an hour in brief volatility. Bitcoin (BTC) staged a dramatic breakout of its weekly trading corridor on Nov. 15, but selling pressure rejected an attempt to break $9,000. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 Bitcoin fails […]
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